microbial
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microbial (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, or caused by microbes or microorganisms.
- 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
- Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.
- Small; tiny; minuscule.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 191:
- As I say, one must not blame the Christians too much for all this - partly because, after the communal periods which I have just mentioned, Christianity was evidently deeply influenced by the rise of Commercialism to which during the last two centuries it has so carefully and piously adapted itself; and partly because - if our view is anywhere near right - this microbial injection of self-consciousness was just the necessary work which (in conjunction with commercialism) it had to perform.
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relating to microbes
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Noun[edit]
microbial (plural microbials)
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Portuguese[edit]
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- Hyphenation: mi‧cro‧bi‧al
Adjective[edit]
microbial m or f (plural microbiais)
- microbial (relating to microbes)
- Synonyms: micróbico, microbiano
Spanish[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
microbial m or f (masculine and feminine plural microbiales)
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